samu press

samupress is the place for funny and creative cat coffee mugs, wry whimsy, and abstract design, humourous, odd, unusual, iPad created original art and images by doug rogers, an artist in London, Ontario, Canada.
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Friday, 27 February 2015

See. It's not our fault. We are being toyed with by powers beyond our control. There's nothing we can do about it anyway. It's Catogenic Global Warming. It's a conspiracy by Internet LOLcats to make the planet a warm cozy place for naps!

Wednesday, 25 February 2015

This is for the fans of onions, for those who like onions, the scent, as blown by the fan. Always cook onions below the fan. Then the scent is sent and the fan has fun. For some though, the scent isn't fun. For those folks we need a not-fan, for the scent sent isn't fun.

Thursday, 19 February 2015

I am really up in the air about how to handle greeting cards and notecards. Writing witty, funny texts and slogans and jokes is also very hard work. It feels like greeting cards always need some text, some prepackaged sentiments. Obviously this makes the buyers choice easier because everything is thought out for them. When I have sold cards at shows and little art fairs, people say they buy them for the images, to start their own little art gallery, and they can then also write for themselves what they want to say.

So, there is a case for blank cards, and a case for 'complete' cards.

With that said I suspect the market for cards online is conventional and convenient, maybe unusual, or customizable. At the same time, the only money to be made is in bulk purchases by the customer. But the images I make are clearly unique, original, personal, lean toward the unconventional and cry out for personalization and customization.

So much of my online stock here is in various stages of seemingly complete, and seemingly incomplete. I am working on a set of cards with text and sentiments, unique, retro and punny funny.

Wednesday, 11 February 2015

Here be dragons. Well, one dragon anyway. One dragon who looks like she needs a cup of coffee. Dragon also has a page in the 20 Monsters book, and really, only as a warning that things aren't so serious.

Drawn and coloured in the Paper by 53 app, before the Pencil stylus came along, these are all wonderfully antediluvian digital finger paintings, quirky and idiosyncratic personal monsters of a sometimes dark and satirical humour – not at all realistic or in any way of a contemporary art style niche, but uniquely me, for sure.

Wednesday, 4 February 2015

Yes, I'll admit that sometimes I can be, shall we say, a bit untethered. And sometimes I come up with something that is a bit unclassifiable, odd, and maybe abnormal. Here, a man stands in the basket of a hot air balloon, and tips his hat. He has no head. The hot air balloon is a brain – a floating brain tethered to a basket carrying a man with no head – a floating brain balloon carried whimsically by whatever wind chooses to blow.

Monday, 2 February 2015

Here at the samupress cat store, we are happy to present a plethora of puzzles, a coterie of cats. Zazzle puzzle sizes are available in an 8 by 10 inch and a 10 by 14 inch size with a box for the cat to play in when the puzzle isn't in it.